Podcast: Breaking down the Steve Jobs movie

It’s the first ever version of the Macworld Movie Club on this special edition of the Macworld Podcast, as we discuss the movie Jobs. Joining me in this roundtable review of the new Steve Jobs biopic that arrived in theaters Friday are Philip Michaels, Armando Rodriguez, and Susie Ochs.

We spend some time talking about what we liked about the movie and significantly more time on what we didn’t like. If a movie about the life of a public figure as famous as Steve Jobs can contain spoiler alerts, we do dive into the film. So if you’d like to go into Jobs unspoiled, save this podcast for after you leave the cineplex.

During the podcast, we mention 1999’s Pirates of Silicon Valley, a made-for-TV take on the early days of Apple. I reviewed that movie for Macworld 14 years ago. (I didn’t like it as much as the other panelists on this podcast did.)

Oh, and just in case you think this is the last word on Steve Jobs movies, remember that a big-screen adaptation of Walter Isaacson’s Jobs biography is in the works, with a screenplay from Aaron Sorkin.

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Jason Snell

Jason is the former editorial director of Macworld, and has reviewed every major Apple product of the last few years, including the original iPhone and iPad as well as every major version of Mac OS X. Check out Sixcolors.com for his latest Apple coverage.More by Jason Snell